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Critical Thinking in Academia | Steven Pinker
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7:05Now PlayingIn this clip, John and Steven discuss the state of critical thinking in modern academia. While Steven acknowledges that there are still many rational and well-intentioned academics, he expresses concern over the growing limitations on free speech within universities. They also consider why absurd ideas so often emerge from academic environments.
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Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT.
He has won numerous prizes for his research, his teaching, and his books. The latest published in 2021, is called 'Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters'.
He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, and one of Foreign Policy’s “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals” and Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” He was Chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and writes frequently for the New York Times, the Guardian, and other publications.
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